On Irritation and Insanity: A Work Wherein the Relations of the Physical with the Moral Conditions of Man, are Established on the Basis of Physiological MedicineS. J. M'Morris, 1831 - 408 pages Thomas Cooper, the inveterate materialist, attacks the dominant American school of metaphysical doctrines of psychology by translating and publishing the most forward writer of the modern French school of physiological medicine. |
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... modify and destroy our organs , are attributed to diseases , as if diseases were separate and real beings ; and the reason of the mischief is , that empirical medicine never corrects itself ; experience is lost upon it , and it goes on ...
... modify and destroy our organs , are attributed to diseases , as if diseases were separate and real beings ; and the reason of the mischief is , that empirical medicine never corrects itself ; experience is lost upon it , and it goes on ...
Page xvi
... modify it as they think fit . They are true reformers of worship , or rather illuminati who aspire to the universal dominion over con- science . Exclusives as spiritualists , they amalgamate differ- ent dogmas , even those that were ...
... modify it as they think fit . They are true reformers of worship , or rather illuminati who aspire to the universal dominion over con- science . Exclusives as spiritualists , they amalgamate differ- ent dogmas , even those that were ...
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... modification which induces the man to say , " I feel , I perceive , " there is both irritability and sensibility . Sensibility , then , is the consequence of ir- ritability , and not irritability of sensibility : in other words , we ...
... modification which induces the man to say , " I feel , I perceive , " there is both irritability and sensibility . Sensibility , then , is the consequence of ir- ritability , and not irritability of sensibility : in other words , we ...
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... modify the vital properties , and augment or di- minish the excitation of the organs . He therefore furnish- ed to the doctrine of irritation , a foundation which subsequent observers might render more substantial . James Gregory , a ...
... modify the vital properties , and augment or di- minish the excitation of the organs . He therefore furnish- ed to the doctrine of irritation , a foundation which subsequent observers might render more substantial . James Gregory , a ...
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... modification , in the influ- ence exerted by the causes of disease , and the action of re- medies . On the other ... modify it according to prevailing theories , the results were not always satisfactory . The uneasiness which arose from ...
... modification , in the influ- ence exerted by the causes of disease , and the action of re- medies . On the other ... modify it according to prevailing theories , the results were not always satisfactory . The uneasiness which arose from ...
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Page 286 - And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts? Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.
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Page 285 - ... and as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead ? he is not here, but is risen.
Page 286 - The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe.
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Page 286 - Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands ; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side : and be not faithless, but believing. And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God. Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.
Page 285 - And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day : and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
Page 286 - And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you.
Page 290 - I believed, and therefore have I spoken ; we also believe, and therefore speak ; 14 Knowing, that he which raised up the Lord Jesus, shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.